Hello to the community. I am asking myself the question in the subject. IMHO, since it's an open-source non-commercial project, we are not bound by tight schedule or tough budget. So why won't we build the project in a "theoretically right" way. From my experience, there are the following stages in the development of a project: 1) Research of the need. 2) Statement of the need. 3) Request for Project Information. 4) Reply to Request for Information. 5) Request for Project Proposal. 6) Reply to Request for Project Proposal. 7) Project proposal selection. 8) Project proposal implementation. 9) Project test plan. 10) Project evaluation. 11) Project certification. We are already past stages 1) and 2) - the Perl6 announcement is actually a Statement of need. What we need to - is a well-prepared document 3) - Request for Project Information. Such a document would summarize the need for Perl6 in the community and list the features we _desire_ to see in Perl6. I am talking about final features of the language and not of the tactical, or even strategical way of the implementation! Over the weekend I will dare to propose a skeleton of such a document to the list with blanks to discuss and fill. A REPLY to such a document will contain the evaluation of the features the information for which was requested. The evaluation should come in terms of "Urgency vs. Time consumption vs. Performance" or likewise. After filtering the reply, a Request for Project proposal will be issued. It will already be a well-defined Specs document for the future Perl6 language. Replies to it would already deal with the possible implementations, one of which would be selected etc. So, I think the discussions over "Microperl-C-C++-ASM" whatever are premature, for we are not sure WHAT we are going to implement to ask HOW we will do it. Existense first, the Inquiry and then Sophistication, as Douglas Adams stated. :) -- Roman M. Parparov - NASA EOSDIS project node at TAU technical manager. Email: romm@empire.tau.ac.il http://www.komkon.org/~romm Phone/Fax: +972-(0)3-6405205 (work), +972-(0)54-629-884 (home) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul KauffmannThread Next